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Autonomy Society 10 20 30 40 50 Winnipeg General Strike Business Cycle Causes of the Great Depression 10 20 30 40 50

Question 1 - 10 What year did the Winnipeg General Strike occur?

Answer 1 – 10 1919

Question 1 - 20 What large organization was formed by workers?

Answer 1 – 20 One Big Union (OBU)

Question 1 - 30 What organization was formed by the business owners?

Answer 1 – 30 Citizen’s Committee of One Thousand

Question 1 - 40 What were the worker demands? (3)

Answer 1 – 40 Wage increases Working conditions Collective bargaining

Question 1 - 50 What was the outcome of the Winnipeg General Strike? Short-term and long-term

Answer 1 – 50 Short Term: Long Term: Nothing, leaders jailed and some deported Long Term: Voice of the workers was somewhat heard CCF formed by strike leader J.S. Woodworth *Remember – strike had little to do with spread of communism as was feared and more to do with discontent workers and veterans during the war to peacetime transition*

Question 2 - 10 Name the event that revolved around the role of the Governor General in Canada

Answer 2 – 10 King-Byng Crisis/Affair

Question 2 - 20 Name the international organization that Canada joined after WWI with the aim to collectively keep the peace between nations.

Answer 2 – 20 League of Nations

Question 2 - 30 Name the first international treaty that Canada signed without a representative from Britain.

Answer 2 – 30 Halibut Treaty (1923)

Question 2 - 40 Name the event where Canada delayed the decision to support Britain militarily.

Answer 2 – 40 Chanak Crisis

Question 2 - 50 Name the report and statute that gave Canada and other colonies in the British Empire equal status – beginning of British Commonwealth.

Answer 2 – 50 Balfour Report and Statute of Westminster

Question 3 - 10 Identify.

Answer 3 – 10 Flapper

Question 3 - 20 Definition: Prevention by law of the manufacturing and sale of alcohol. Lasted in the USA from 1920 to 1933

Answer 3 – 20 Prohibition

Question 3 - 30 Identify.

Answer 3 – 30 Group of Seven

Question 3 - 40 Identify groups that did not participate in the “Roar” of the 1920s.

Answer 3 – 40 First Nations, African Canadians, poor, marginalized

Question 3 - 50 The Person’s Case revolved around the definition of a person under the law in Canada. While the law did state women could not be Senators because they did not meet the current definition, a group of women took the issue to the highest court in Britain and had the law amended. Name the group.

Answer 3 – 50 Famous Five

Question 4 - 10 What controls a laissez faire market economy?

Answer 4 – 10 Invisible hand of supply and demand.

Question 4 - 20 Draw the business cycle.

Answer 4 – 20 Prosperity Recovery Recession Depression

Question 4 - 30 In which stage of the business cycle does a sellers market occur?

Answer 4 – 30 Recovery

Question 4 - 40 When does equilibrium in a market economy occur?

Answer 4 – 40 When supply equals demand

Question 4 - 50 When does a buyers market exist? At this stage a stockpile of goods occurs

Answer 4 – 50 Recession

Question 5 - 10 Name the practice where individuals put 10% down and borrow the rest

Answer 5 – 10 Buying on margin

Question 5 - 20 What was widely available to citizens in the 1920s? Many chose to buy “wants” not “needs”

Answer 5 – 20 Credit

Question 5 - 30 Name the practice where it is believed that a value of a good will increase. In this case it is “over” estimated

Answer 5 – 30 Overspeculation

Question 5 - 40 Countries imposed this during the 1920s in hopes to protect their domestic market.

Answer 5 – 40 Tariffs

Question 5 - 50 What was the trigger/signal of the beginning of the Great Depression?